Dasyatis

Dasyatis
Temporal range: 100–0 Ma[1]
Early Cenomanian to Present
Common stingray (D. pastinaca)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Order: Myliobatiformes
Family: Dasyatidae
Genus: Dasyatis
Rafinesque, 1810
Type species
Dasyatis ujo
Rafinesque, 1810
Synonyms
  • Amphotistius Garman, 1913
  • Anacanthus Cuvier (ex Ehrenberg), 1829
  • Bathytoshia Whitley, 1933
  • Brachioptera Gratzianov, 1906
  • Dasybatus Klein, 1775
  • Hypanus Rafinesque, 1818
  • Pastinaca Swainson, 1838
  • Toshia Whitley, 1933
  • Trygon Cuvier (ex Adanson), 1816
  • Urolophoides Lindberg in Soldatov & Lindberg, 1930
  • Uroxis Rafinesque, 1810

Dasyatis (Greek "dasys" meaning rough or dense and "batus" meaning skate) is a genus of stingray. The members of the genus Neotrygon were formerly included in Dasyatis.

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